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2010-02-01 , 14:47
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Originally Posted by nicola.mfb View Post
Continuing on the technical aspect, and on the point that big part of nokia man power is dedicated to maemo6, do not understimate the man power of community.

I'll happy to collaborate in a community developer team to adapt ovi map 3 for maemo5, signing an NDA if necessary.
If that's not possible to be sure that code will remain private, we may develop a "middleware compatibility layer", using only the exposed API.

Wath do you think about that?
I think that would be a huge gesture of good will from Nokia, and make everyone a lot less disgruntled, but i'm not sure if their contract with the map data provider will allow it. We may be restricted to reverse-engineering the storage format if we want to "roll our own" solution.

How about it, Quim? Any chance of opening the maps data format for community projects to make use of?
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